Autographic register



W. E. DUNNING AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER l an. 12, 1932.

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AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed Sept. 20, 1930 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Q. I ii Patented Jan. 12, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILL IAIM E. DUNN'ING, OF ALLIANCE, OH IO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MCCASKEY REGISTER COMPANY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO =AUTOGRAPI-IIC REGISTER Application filed September 20, 1930. Serial No. 483,269.

The invention relates to autographic registers of the type in which a plural record strip is fed across'a table, with means interposed between the layers or laminations of the strip for transferring records from the top layer to those below and the present application refers more particularly to improvements upon the "autographic registers disclosed ininy prior application Serial No.

'0 427,025, filed February 8, 1930, and in my applications for autographic registers executed of even date herewith, Serial Numbers @8326? and 483,268, the latter now being Patent 7 Number 1,805,239, dated May 12,1931. I

The object of the improvement is to provide a register of this general type in which the plural record strip is arranged to be separated into individual slips or tickets in duplicate, triplicate or other plural groups, each slip'being provided with apertures through which a pair of normally idle disk wheels cooperate with the upper feed roll to properly position each slip or ticket to permit the 5 same to be severed from the strip.

Another object of the improvement is to provide a spring knife for longitudinally slitting the plural record strip into a plurality of similar strips, thisknife being arranged to keep the record strip taut-to facilitate writing thereon, during thetimethat records are to be placed'upon the strip.

A further object is to provide feed roll mechanism for the perforated record strip including upper and lower feed rolls, the lower roll being of less length than the upper and having a. low point throughout substantially half of its periphery, a smaller diameter roll or bar being carried by the lower rollat this pointv for cooperation with the upper roll, and normally idle disk wheels, of less diam; et'er than the lower roll, being. mounted to cooperate with the upper. roll for feeding and positioning the record strip, through the apertures therein, while the low point/of the lower feed roll is passingthe upper roll.

The aboveand other objects, which will be apparent from the following detailed description of the invention, and an inspection of -the accompanying drawings, maybe attained by constructing the improved register in the manner illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the improved autographic register;

Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section through the register;

Fig. 3, a plan view of the register with the cover removed and parts broken away for the purpose of illustration;

Fig. 4, a fragmentary section on the line 44, Fig. 3, showing the hand lever for raising the upper roll, and the pawl and ratchet for preventing back movement of the feed rolls;

Fig. 5, a section on an enlarged scale taken on the line 55, Fig. 3, showing the spring knife;

Fig. 6, a section on the line 66, Fig. 3, showing the feed roll mechanism;

Fig. 7, a diagrammatic view of the feed rolls showing the same in the initial position;

Fig. 8, a similar view showing the parts in operation, ust at the time the lower feed roll lifts the upper feed roll out of engagement with the side disk wheels; I

Fig. 9, a similar View showing the point of the lower feed roll feed roll;

Fig. 10, a similar view showing the side disk wheels cooperating with the upper feed roll to feed the record strip;

Fig. 11, a similar view showing the disk wheels idling through the apertures in the record strip;

Fig. 12, a similar view showing the small roller or rod on the lower feed roll cooperating with the upper feed roll to feed the record strip forward moving the apertures therein away from the disk wheels; and

Fig. 13, a top plan view of the register with parts broken away for the purpose of illustration Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

The register may be housed within a casing formed generally of the side walls 10, end walls 11, bottom wall 12, table 13 and just leaving the upper a The record strip especit use in this register is preferably a plural cover 14, all of which may be formed of sheet metal as illustrated in the drawings.

The interior of the casing may be divided by partition walls 15 into compartments 16 and 17 for housing a supply of record strips, compartment 16 being adapted to receive the pluralrecord strips, as indicated at 18, and the compartment 17 being for filing the lowermost strip or strips after the same has been longitudinallysevered from the upper strip or strips and records have been written thereon, as shown generally at 19. c

' lly adapted for strip arranged to make duplicate, triplicate or other plural number of copies, and is preferably of the type illustrated and described in detail in my priorapplication Serial No. 427,- 025,7above referred to, in which the several strips are formed in a single sheet or strip of paper folded longitudinally upon itself to produce the desired-number of separate strips, three being shown herein for the purposeof illustration. Each strip may be divided transversely by perforations or other lines of weakening, indicated generally at 20,

into slips or tickets, provided with any suit able printed form upon which any desired items may be written.

For the purpose of recording writings on the top strip upon the understrip or strips, sheetsof carbon paper may be interposed between the strips, or certain of the strips may be provided with carbonized under surfaces asillustrated and described in detail in my prior application above referred to. In the event separate carbon paper is interposed between the strips the same may be placed in rolls within thehousing 21 located at one side of the casing.

The plural record strip may be folded back and forth upon the transverse lines 20 and stored'in the compartment 16, as shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, the upper free end of the strip being passed rearwardoverthe rod 22, around the roller 23 and then forward over the spring knife, which is an important feature of the invention.

The knife includes the upper and lower spaced plates 24a and 245 respectively providedwith the outwardly disposed ears 240 at their forward ends, the lower ears being spaced above the table 13 as by the spacing block or plate 25 and the plates being spaced apart as by the spacing blocks or plates 26.

The knife blades 27 are pivotally mounted at their rear ends between the rear end portions ofthe plates, as shown at 28 and springs 29 areconnected to the forward end portions of the knife blades, and to the table 13, being arranged to normally urge the blades outward and rearward into contact with the stop pins 30 fixed upon the table. The rear ends of the plates 24a and 24?) are preferably provided with the rounded corners 31'to assist in guid- 27 which longitudinally sever the record strip along its folded edges into three similar strips. I

Forv the purpose of properly positioning the record strip, when a new strip is'placed in the machine, a pair of disappearing pins 33 is provided, these pins being preferably carried upon a bar 34 normally urged upward as by the leaf spring 35. The bar 34 carries also a pair of pins 36 adapted to be engaged by the cover 14, when in closed position, as shown in Figure 2, for depressing the bar 34 sufficiently to withdraw the pins 33 below the level of the table 13.

Certain of the slips or tickets of the record strip are provided with apertures 37' adapted to be engaged by the pins 33, when in the raised position, and for the purpose ofuniformity in manufacture, eachof the slips or tickets of the record stripmay be provided with these apertures. I

Feed rolls are located forward of the sight opening 38, formed in the cover 14, the upper roll 39 being carried in a housing 40,7preferably formed in the cover, and is'normally urged downward toward the lower roll 41 by means of springs '42 located within the housing 40 and contacting with the upper roll shaft 43. For the purpose of adjusting the tension upon the springs 42, adjusting screws 44 may be provided in the upper ends of the spring barrels 45. V

The upper and lowerfeed rolls 39 and 41 are arranged to be rotated in unison at the same peripheral speed by the gears46 and 47 mounted upon the upper and lower roll shafts respectively. The lower roll shaft 48 protrudes through one side wall .10 of the casing and has fixed thereon an operating handle 49 by means of which the rolls may be manually rotated to feed the record strip through theregister.

The lower feed roll is provided around I nearly one half of its periphery with a low point or relieved'portion'5 0, which may be further cut away at one point as at 51, to accommodate-a roll or rod 52, which protrudes beyond the path of this relieved portion of the feed roll and is supported by the disks 53, connected to opposite ends of the feed roll 41.

A pair of normally idle disk wheels 54 are mounted beyond the ends of the lower feed roll and in position to contact with the upper feed roll when the relievedportion 50 of the lower roll is in position to register with the upper feed -roll.

These disks may be mounted upon stub shafts 55, carried by stationary bearings such as the plates 56, which have bearings 57 connected at opposite ends to the side walls of the casing. v

A catch is provided upon the casing for normally holding the cover 14 in closed position, said cover being hingedly connected to the casing at its rear end as by the rod 61, whereby when the caseis released the cover may be swung upward away from the table.

For the purpose of preventing backward rotation of the feed rolls a ratchet 62 may be fixed upon the lower feed roll shaft 48 and engaged by a pawl 63, pivotally mounted as upon the shaft or rod 64 and adapted to normally engage the ratchet by gravity. In order to manually raise the upper feed roll 39 away from the lower feed roll, against the pressure of the springs 42, to permit a new record strip to be inserted between the rolls, a manually operated lever may be pivoted within the casing, as at 66, and provided with the upturned, notched end 67, adapted to engage the upper feed roll shaft and hold the same in raised position.

When it is desired to insert a new pack of record strips within the casing the catch 60 is released, permitting the cover 14 to be swung upward upon its hinge away from' the table, which is then raised to permit access to the compartment 16, permitting the pack of record strips, as shown at 18, to be placed within said compartment, after which the table is replaced and the free end of the record strip is passed over the rod 22, around the roller 23 and then forward over the guide plates 24a and 246, the paper being longitudinally severed at its folded edges by the pivoted knife blades 27. The paper then passes over the table, beneath the sight opening 38 and between the feed rolls, which may be separated for this purpose by means of the lever 65 The feed rolls may be turned sufficiently to bring the apertures 37 of'the foremost slip or ticket thereon, into engagement with the starting pins 33, which at this time, with the cover raised, are in the upper position. When the cover is closed it will contact with the pins 36, depressing the bar 34 and pushing the pins 33 downward out of engagement with the apertures in the record strip, the

' machine being then in condition for operation. I

With the record strip thus placed in position, the parts will be substantially in the position shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, the record strips being held taut between the feed rolls and the spring knife blades, permitting entries to be made upon the foremost slip or ticket portion of the upper strip appearing through the sight opening 38 in the cover.

The stop lever 70, pivoted at 71 upon the side wall 10, adjacent to the operating handle 4?) is then pressed to the left'or forward,

moving the stop lug 72 out of the path of the flange 73, upon the operating handle, permitting the handle to be rotated in the direction of the arrow shown on Figure 1, the

handle being rotated one complete revolution and again contacting with the stop lug 72.

As the operating handle is thus rotated, the feed rolls and disk wheels cooperate to feed the record strip forward, longitudinally slitting the same over the spring knife blades 27, and moving the severed strips a distance equal to the length of one slip or ticket, stopping the same in position for the foremost ticket to be severed transversely at its weakened line 20, by the cutting edge 74.

The initial position of the feed rolls is shown in Figure 7, with the weakened line 20 registering with the cutting edge 74, the strip being held between the upper feed roll 39 and thedisk wheels 54. As the operation starts, the upper feed roll, cooperating with the disks 54 will feed the strip forward until the high point of the lower feed roll 41 engages the strip, moving the upper feed roll upward and out of engagement with the disk wheels 54, as shown in Figure 8. The strip is then fed between the upper and lower feed rolls, around the entire high surface of the lower roll to the point shown in Figure 9, after which, as shown in Figure 10, the upper feed roll is permitted to move downward, pinching the strip against the disk wheels 54, which cooperate with the upper roll to feed the strip to the point shown in Figure 11, where the apertures 37 re ister with the disk wheels 54, permitting the disk wheels and upper feed roll to continue to rotate without movement of the strip.

The strip thus remains stationary until the rod or roller 52 moves to the position shown in Figure 12, raising the upper feed roll 39 out of engagement with the disk wheels and carrying the strip forward to the position shown in Figure 7, at which time the weakened line 20 of the strip registers with the cutting edge 74, just at the instant that the flange 73 upon the operating handle contacts with the stop lug 72 and stops the operation of the register. The foremost slip or ticket may then be torn off along the weakened line 20, by means of the cutting edge 74, and the next slip or ticket is in position beneath the sight opening, and held taut to permit writing thereon.

It will be seen that theapert'ures 37 in the record strips may be very small, it only being necessary for them to be of suificient diameter to permit the disk wheels 54, to contact with the upper feed roll 39, through the apertures, without feeding the record strip. Since the plural record strip is formed in one piece and is only severed longitudinally by the spring blades just prior to passing beneath the sight opening 38, it will be seen that the plural strips will not get out of alignment with one another but will all feed Thus there is no feeding of one striprelative to another by the disk wheels at and upper feed roll, through the apertures 37, these apertures being merely for the purpose of permitting the strip to be held stationary for a short time just prior to the end of each operation in order that the rod or bar 52, may at the proper instant feed the strip forward to the stopping point bringing it into position for tearing on by the cutting edge 74.

I claim:

1. An autographic register including a casing adapted to contain a longitudinally folded plural record strip, a table in the casing, a spring pulled pivoted knife blade ad" jacent to the table, and feed rolls for feeding the plural record strip over the pivoted knife blade to slit the record strip longitudinally and across the table. a I

2; An autographie register including a casing adapted to contain a record strip provided with spaced apertures, a table in the casing, feed rolls in the casing for .feeding the record strip over the table, a relieved portion in one of the feed rolls and dish wheels mounted upon shafts journaled in stationary bearings and adapted to contact with the other feed roll through the apertures inthe record strip. I

An autographic register including a casing adapted to containa record strip provided with spaced apertures, a table in the casing, feed rolls in the casing for feeding the record strip over the table, a relieved pOrtion in one of the feedrolls anddisk wheels adapted to contact with the other feed roll throughthe apertures in the record strip, and a rod upon the first named feed roll extending beyond the periphery of relieved portion thereof for raising the other feed roll out of engagement with the disk wheels and feeding the strip forward.

4. An autographic register including a casing adapted to contain arecord strip provided with spaced apertures, 21 table in the caslng, feed rolls in the casing for feeding the record strip over the table, a relieved portion in one of the feed rolls and dish wheels adapted to contact with the other feed roll through the apertures in the record strip, and a small rollupon the first named feed roll eX- tending beyondthe periphery of the relieved portion thereof for raising the other feed roll out of engagement with the disk wheels and feeding the strip forward.

,5. An autographic register including a casing adapted to contain a record strip having spaced apertures therein, a table in the casing, feed rolls forfeeding the record strip over the table, one of the feed rolls havingv a relieved peripheral portion, a rod carried by said last named feed roll and extending beyond the periphery of said relieved portion,

plates fixed beyond the ends of the last named feed roll and normally idle disk wheels journalled upon said plates and adapted to contact with the other feed roll through the apertures in, the record strip to permit the strip to remain stationary during a. part of the time said relievedyp'ortion of the one feed roll registers with the other feed roll said rod being adapted to raise the. last namedfeed roll out of engagement with the disk wheels and to feed the strip forwarde 6. An autographic register including a casing adapted to contain a record strip having spaced apertures therein, .a table in the casing, feed rolls for'feeding the record strip over the table, one of the feed rolls having a relieved peripheral portion, a small roller carried by saidla-st named feed roll and eX- tending beyond the periphery of said relieved portion, plates fixed beyond the ends of the last named feed roll and normally idle disk wheels journaled upon said plates and adapted to contact with the other feed roll through the apertures in the record strip to permit the strip to remain stationary during a part of the time said relieved portion of the one feed roll registers withthe other feed r ll said'rodbeing adapted to raise the last named feed roll out of engagement with the disk wheels and to feed the strip forward.

. In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

WILLIAM E. DUNNING. 

